I will count to three. there will not be a four. give. me. the. code.

I disagree on both them counts. for an intermediate user, sure. for a try-to-dip-their-toes first-time user, absolutely not.

VMs are OK for one-off or compartmentalised tasks. running linux on anything but bare metal is a sub-optimal experience and off-putting. it’s essential for the user to get the feedback in snappy and satisfying response to their actions, which is easily accomplished even on 10-year old hardware, while being a tall order for any VM deployment. not to mention, any intense graphic use (an important part of OP’s spec) is nothing but crap in that scenario.

dual-boot scenarios are not for beginners. a) you can fuck something up and thus relieve you of a safe fall-back and b) you can’t switch between workstation #1 and #2 concurrently, reboots are jarring focus breakers.

the list of things you’d like to be able to seamlessly transition over is kinda… well, that’s a lot of stuff. anyone claiming you can pull this off whilst maintaining any semblance of productivity is deluded.

my advice would be, get yourself a second machine. powerful hardware is stupid cheap nowadays and you can get a semi-competent laptop in the $100 region. take your time setting it up, always having the option to tear everything down and start over as it’s not your primary rig. start with a beginner friendly distro, Mint or Ubuntu, try 'em both and see which you like better.

then, just start doing the things from the list. item 1, easy-peasy. item 7 next, huh that was easy. next item 4, then 5… you’re gradually transitioning, without any downtime and always having the fallback option of your existing setup. before you know it, you’re a Linux user!

by the time you figure all this stuff out, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to nuke windows for good and jump in both feet, not to mention - your laptop as a fallback.

C-suite justifying payroll delays with outside factors (waiting for payment from customers, etc.) is a long-standing worker oppression tactic that no-one should take lying down. at the first inkling of such a maneuver, stand fast and tell 'em to go to a fucking bank and take out a short-term loan to service payroll and then they can wait for payment or whatever. this is not a reason for payment delay, it’s an excuse and you’d do well to treat it as such.

But Lenovo only had the first gen available for sale,

can you share which model that is?

then you ain’t got no problem, Jules.

the ATV builds are here: https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi4/

yes happens with scaling

long-standing Konsole bug, fixed in newer versions like the ones in Fedora. some people had success with playing with Line spacing and Margins in Settings/Profiles/Appearance/Misc

I understood you fine. what I’m saying is, you don’t need to use the 1 KW PC when the 5 W Raspy can fulfill all the roles you stated - media playback (local and online) and remote gaming from your new rig. if you know Raspy’s power by way of the crap that is Kodi - a bloated, slow as molasses, buggy zombie patched for 20 years and held together by duct tape - then you might be surprised with how it can run. also, you have the option of running LineageOS AndroidTV with native apps for all three stated roles.

if you’re adamant about repurposing your old PC it in that role, your best bet would be bazzite, a 10-foot UI-having SteamOS clone. but then, you’re smashing into the wall that is Nvidia on Linux; a fun project but not really a plug and play solution for the living room.

I can do 2 out of 3. instead of running the abomination that is Kodi, you can install normal linux to the Pi (Raspbian), and then add on jellyfin-mpv-shim (or plex-mpv-shim) and macast (for youtube, peertube, etc and it also supports DLNA). they are sinks, i.e. there is no UI for you to interact with. instead, you use your mobile phone or tablet to browse your library, youtube, whathaveyou. when you want something played, you send it to the sink and it plays it in full screen. you can use the mobile device to control playback (pause, ff/rew, change subs, etc.).

can’t help with the gaming part, moonlight/sunshine should do that but I haven’t got any experience with them.

the Pi 4 you got is more than adequate for all the mentioned tasks.

for games that fell off a truck or something, maybe look here. I’ve found almost all of those I’ve found in the mentioned way to work without issues with lutris.

as to upgrading the games, hadn’t tried that. I know there are periodic updates for popular titles (like Cyberpunk 2077) released and you can find them in the same place you found the game, but seems too much hassle.

as usual, devs are lost in implementing ludicrously complex scenarios for threat models that touch but a percentile of users, instead of implementing functionality that’s normal everywhere else.

Where’s all of my older media?

As noted above, we can only sync media sent/received in the last 45 days.

are you for real? I mean, come on! coulda saved yourself the blog post. also, the two device maximum is still in effect? the electron crap posing as an app, that’s it, that’s the extent of your dev team’s capabilities?

yeah I remote-delete’d all the ones that were there by default and then added flathub without the --user flag, as was the custom at the time, so I guess that’s the culprit. no biggie, it works this way too and the couple of apps that need to be cajoled don’t need that daily. the question was about the perceived cumbersomeness about fixing, but it turns out it’s due to my tinkering.

I tried that initally, says there’s insufficient write access to .l/s/a (it’s 0700) an then creates an invalid symlink:

$ ll .local/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx@ - i 14 Dec 15:22 .local/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop -> ../../../app/org.signal.Signal/current/active/export/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop

searching helped me nada, so that’s why I started manually editing 'em.

edit: there’s a bug report - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394476

I haven’t flashed my T480s yet, as it’s my daily, and I’m waiting for a couple versions to bring additional functionality. anyhow, I was hesitant for the longest time about dicking around with this sorta activity, on the basis that if it’s not software flashable/moddable, I’m out. but the total cost of the hardware (raspberry pico, SOIC clamp, some wires) is under $10 in total and the procedure couldn’t be any more straightforward; also it has a multitude of uses after you’re done. my point, if you were similarly hesitant, take another look, it’s easy and this post is very detailed.

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there really ought to be a sticky or something prompting people to include their hardware.

anyhoo, Thinkpad T480s with 40AJ dock with a 4K screen on DP 1.2 with F41 Plasma, no such thing happened ever, use this setup multiple times per week. what’s your hardware?

which ones?

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